A 49-year-old man who downloaded pictures and a movie of sickening child abuse from the internet has been jailed for ten months.

Kevin Fox had searched for the depraved images and then stored them on his computer so he could watch them again.

Colin Meeke, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court that Fox's partner found his horde when she logged on to his computer in October 2012.

"She logged on under his profile and when she went to a picture folder she found a number of indecent images of children," he said.

"She called the police. They arrived straight away. She called him and the computers were seized."

He insisted that the machines had been inspected in the past by Avon and Somerset Police and found to have nothing untoward on them.

But when inquiries were made with the neighbouring force Wiltshire officers found the computers had different serial numbers.

They also found the search histories littered with references to someone looking for the type of material they found.

As well as the pictures and movie, officers also uncovered sick montages of a child aged four or five years old.

Fox, of Warminster Road, Westbury, had pleaded not guilty to possessing indecent images of children but changed his pleas before a trial could take place.

Tristan Harwood, defending, said his client had denied what he had done for so long 'because he was thoroughly ashamed and he wants to distance himself from what he has done'.

He said that if Fox were jailed he would lose his job and may be at risk of losing his home as well.

Jailing him, Recorder Maria Lamb said his offending was aggravated by the age and vulnerability of the children depicted.

She said: "You had them for one year, that makes it worse. There were systematic searches here for images of young girls. All of these are aggravating features.

"You are someone who finds it hard to accept what you have done."

Fox must also register as a sex offender.